Rome commemorates the 80th anniversary of the roundup of Jews from Rome

Rome commemorates the 80th anniversary of the roundup of Jews from Rome.

Rome. The October 16 1943 it was a Saturday, a day of rest for the Jews who were also preparing to celebrate the Sukkot holiday. And that day was chosen specifically by the Nazis to surprise families in their homes at dawn. From 5.30am to 14pm, over 1.200 Jews were arrested. The great roundup had its epicenter in the ancient Ghetto but was also carried out in various other neighborhoods of the city. Those arrested remained locked up in the Military College for two days on via della Lungara. Then, they were forced onto a freight train Tiburtina station and deported to the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, where they were the first 1.022 Italian Jews to arrive. In 1945, at the end of the war, of that convoy Only 16 returned alive.

On the occasion of the eightieth anniversary, Roma Capitale commemorates the roundup of 16 October 1943 with numerous events and initiatives and with a communication campaign, created by Institutional Communication Directorate of Rome Capital, to raise citizens' awareness of the importance of keeping the memory of those days alive: "We remember the past because we care about the future."

The calendar started last October 10th screenings, meetings, theatrical performances, urban tours, as well as an exhibition and a series of special projects that will help keep the memory alive in the culture of civil society. The commemorative program of80th anniversary of the roundup of Jews from Roma of 16 October 1943 is promoted by Roma Capitale, with the contribution of Ministry of the InteriorIn partnership with Jewish Community of Rome, Shoah Museum Foundation andUnion of Italian Jewish Communities (Ucei).

EVENTS ON MONDAY 16 OCTOBER

The day of October 16th will be marked, from morning to evening, by a program of special events which will involve citizens.

The commemorations will have their central moment on the evening of October 16th, with the ceremony at Portico of Octavia, which will see the laying of a laurel wreath along the wall of the Synagogue by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and the interventions of the mayor in his presence Roberto Gualtieri, by Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, of the president of the Jewish Community of Rome Victor Fadlun and the founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio Andrea Riccardi. The ceremony will be preceded, starting from 17.30, From March of Remembrance led by the mayor Gualtieri which, starting from Piazza del Campidoglio, will reach Largo 16 October 1943. The initiative is promoted by Roma Capitale, the Community of Sant'Egidio and the Jewish Community of Rome.

Numerous events have been scheduled since the morning of Monday 16th and are intended for Roman students. From the 10 13, in Hall of the Protomoteca in the Campidoglio, Seven delegations of high school students from the city of Rome will be guests and have been engaged, since June this year, in a study and in-depth project coordinated by the head of the Educational Department of the Shoah Museum Foundation, Marco Caviglia. In the meeting Rome recounts the raid of 16 October 1943, the students will present their story of the roundup and deportation, based on the map of the city locations that bear witness to that tragedy. Promoted by Shoah Museum Foundation, From 'Department of School, Training and Work and from Department of School, Work and Professional Training of Rome Capital.

Another important event on the same day will be the opening of the exhibition at the Capitoline Museums The submerged. Rome, 16 October 1943 which it will be inaugurated at 11.30 am and can be visited until 18 February 2024. Promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Culture, Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, by the Jewish Community of Rome and by the Foundation for the Jewish Museum of Rome, and with the organization of Zètema Progetto Cultura, the exhibition, curated by Yael Calò and Lia Toaff, builds a path with a strong emotional impact with the aim of immersing the visitor in the dimension of anguish, disorientation and violence that the arrested Jews suffered. Through paintings and drawings, photographs, documents, newspapers, documents and objects of everyday life it will be possible to delve deeper into the dramatic events of the protagonists of the deportation, i.e. the women, men and many children who were literally submerged after that tragic day and to whom we want to restore an identity and recognition through memory. Info: www.museiincomune.it

At 15.30 pm in the Aula Magna of the Rectorate in via Ostiense 133b the historical conference will be held Eighty years after the roundup of the Jews of Rome promoted byRoma Tre University. There will be (among others) Miguel Gotor, Councilor for Culture of Rome Capital, Victor Fadlun, president of the Jewish Community of Rome, Andrea Riccardi, historical – Community of Sant'Egidio, Paolo Carusi, PUB-hi/PUB-me coordinator. Moderate Marco Impagliazzo, Department of Educational Sciences – president of the Community of Sant'Egidio.

The events of October 16th will end at 21pm, after the commemorative ceremony at Portico d'Ottavia, with the show That day. Memoirs of October 16, 1943 produced by the Teatro di Roma Foundation – National Theatre, directed by Marco Baliani, which will be staged at Teatro argentina. The terrible facts of “that day" will be recalled by the words of the protagonists: a nine-year-old boy, a girl on the threshold of adolescence, a boy, a young woman, a husband and a wife. Among the interpreters Lino Guanciale and Sandra Toffolatti (reruns from 25 to 29 October at the Teatro India with Francesco Villano and Sandra Toffolatti). The show will be broadcast live and recorded by Rai Radio3.

Below are the other events scheduled in the program

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Over the weeks of programming, particular importance will be reserved for the story and historical analysis of the facts and individual protagonists. Sometimes even through unusual tools. This is the case of the initiative created by Cultural Center of the Jewish Community of Rome which intends to retrace the dramatic events of the little boy Emanuele Di Porto, escaped the roundup on the morning of 16 October after taking refuge on the line's tram today traveled by bus 23 and having received the protection of the Roman tram drivers.

From 10 to 31 October, with the title October 16, 1943. Story of the child and the tram, 10 bus cars of line 23 will remember this touching story through a graphic processing present on window decals, pendulums and attics and a QR code from which you can download an animated film created specifically for the occasion. Promoted by the Shoah Museum Foundation, by the Jewish Community of Rome and in collaboration with Atac.

To the story of little Di Porto, of his mother Virginia Piazza and other victims of the roundup there is also a graphic novel entitled 16 October 1943. Story of Emanuele who escaped Nazism (Mondadori, 2023) with the preface by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, which will be presented on Tuesday 17 October at 18.30 pm at the House of Literature (Piazza dell'Orologio, 3), in the presence of Emanuele Di Porto himself and the other authors Ernesto Anderle and Marco Caviglia. Free entry while places last. Promoted by the Shoah Museum Foundation, the Institution of Libraries and Cultural Centers of Roma Capitale and Mondadori.

Instead, the voices of will take care of reconstructing the dramatic hours of the roundup Claudio Amendola, Violante Placido and Corrado Augias, the interpreters of podcast October 16, 1943 in 7 episodes, produced by Golem Multimedia, with the collaboration of the Shoah Museum Foundation which was presented to the press on Thursday 12 October at the Casina dei Vallati with the participation of Mario Venezia, David Parenzo, Corrado Augias and Violante Placido. The project is promoted by the Shoah Museum Foundation and is supported by Banca del Fucino. The podcast is available for free at Rai Play Sound.

TRIPS OF MEMORY

They are part of the extensive program of commemorations i two Journeys of Memoriesto organized on the days of 22, 23 and 24 October precisely to commemorate the arrival in Auschwitz, on 23 October, of the over one thousand Jews who left Rome. A representation of students, teachers and trainers will arrive with a first organized trip by the Department of School, Training and Work and by the School, Work and Professional Training Department of Rome Capital, by the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, in collaboration with the Shoah Museum Foundation. A second, in the presence of witnesses and historians and intended for adults, will be organized by the Shoah Museum Foundation.

URBAN ROUTES

The urban routes in the city will also be dedicated to the stories of the many deportees. October 19th and 23rd from 17pm – made byTracce Cultural Association – two urban crossings from the title will start Two in one fire. Stone stories, from an idea of Rossella Tansini. Text, adaptation and direction by German Rosary.

Along the traces of the stumbling stones, a map of the city will come to life made up of points and lines, names and moments that time has made blurry. They will be brought to light the stories of the victims, saving them from the threat of oblivion, as well as those of their executioners, to remember how, very often, the enemy can be the person closest to us. Promoted by Shoah Museum Foundation. Free participation with reservations required to the e-mail: centrocultura@romaebraica.it (Itinerary: from via della Lungara 29 to Largo 16 October 1943).

The Memory Paths among the Stumbling Stones, scheduled there, will be aimed at studentsMonday 16 October from 9.30am to 16.30pm, made by Shoah Museum Foundation in collaboration with the Arte in Memoria di Association Adachiara Zevi. We will start from Piazza dei Santi Apostoli and then proceed along a route that will lead the students to Municipalities I, II, III and XIII. At each stop in front of the stumbling blocks, a historian will recount the dramatic events of October 16 and the Nazi occupation, while an actor will read the deportee's biography or relevant passages. With theatrical and musical interventions by Marco Valabrega and Roberto Attias. The project will be completed by the screening of the film within their respective schools The raid – Rome, 16 October 1943, written by Marcello Pezzetti and Liliana Picciotto, Directed by Roger Gabbai and produced by the Shoah Museum Foundation, Forma International, in collaboration with Rai Cinema. The screening is promoted by the Department of School, Training and Work and by the School, Work and Professional Training Department of Rome Capital and the Shoah Museum Foundation.

CINEMA AND THEATER

The program also includes cinematographic and theatrical events: it premiered on 10 October at Cinema The Modern Space in Piazza della Repubblica, the film The Last Time We Were Children, the first work of Claudio Bisio. Already released in theaters, it will be screened on the morning of October 16th at the Cinema Adriano with students from some high schools in Rome and the province. Promoted by Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale and Roma Capitale, in collaboration with Jellyfish Movie.

The programming continues today, Sunday 15 October, at 21pm on the stage India Theatre, where the theatrical reading Elena, la matta di will be staged Giudia Square, written by Elisabetta Fiorito and inspired by the book by Gaetano Petraglia The madwoman of Piazza Giudia (Giuntina, 2022). The story of Elena Di Porto, known by all as "mad", is told from a totally new point of view, that of the protagonist. On stage, together with Paola Minaccioni, three musicians who will play live compositions written for the occasion. Free entry with reservations required via email: events@museodellashoah.it. Promoted by the Shoah Museum Foundation and in collaboration with Rome Theater Foundation.

From Portico d'Ottavia, October 17th at 18pm and 20pm, the traveling monologue 13419. The need for return produced by Ettore Scola in 2006 will begin; written, directed and starring Roberto Attias and with the participation of Tonino Tosto. With him, along six stops through the streets of the former Ghetto, the public will move ready to witness the stories of a young Roman Jew, played by Attias, through which some fundamental historical stages will be retraced: from the promulgation of the racial laws to the deportation. Free participation with reservation required by email: centrocultura@romaebraica.it (reruns reserved for Jewish schools on 16 and 17 October at 10.30). Promoted by the Shoah Museum Foundation and Cultural Center of the Jewish Community of Rome.

Finally, Tuesday 17 October at 21pm, appointment at the Arcipelago Library in via Benedetto Croce 50 for the show 161043 Canti, Musica e Memoria remembering 16 October 1943 curated by Gianni Bosio Club. A story between words and music that begins with the roundup, continues with the journey and arrives at the extermination camp. Based on oral testimonies collected from survivors and those who witnessed the events of that day, the story alternates audio fragments - taken from the original recordings preserved in theFranco Coggiola Archive of the Gianni Bosio Club – to original and traditional musical pieces. Free admission subject to availability. Promoted by the Institution of the Library System of Cultural Centers of Rome Capital, edited by Gianni Bosio Club.

MEETINGS

Linked to the themes of the exhibition The submerged. Rome, 16 October 1943, will be a seminar on the memory and history of the Shoah in Italy scheduled for 18 October, from 15pm to 19pm, at the Historical Archives of the Presidency of the Republic. Among those who will speak is the historian Michele Sarfatti, the curators of the exhibition Yael Calò and Lia Toaff, Professor Luciano Zani, the doctor Gabriella Yael Franzone, Dr. Enrico Serventi Longhi and the professor Damiano Garofalo. The superintendent will introduce the conference Marina Giannetto. Promoted by the Historical Archive of the Presidency of the Republic and by the Foundation for the Jewish Museum of Rome.

Finally, to open new fronts of study, on November 6th at 10 am at theOratorio Di Castro in via Cesare Balbo 33 the workshop will be held The raid of 16 October 1943. New data and new research proposals organized by the Jewish Community of Rome and edited by Silvia Haia Antonucci, of the Historical Archive of Jewish Community of Rome. Representatives of various academic institutions will participate in the debate based on the latest research data relating to deportees to and from Rome during the Nazi occupation. Promoted by Shoah Museum Foundation.

The commemorative program of the 80th anniversary of the roundup of the Jews from Rome on 16 October 1943 is available on www.comune.roma.it